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POPULAR APPROVAL OF THEFT engi engl sh writer sees S agn fleance in on of robbers the idea of private property has never been fully accepted by the masses of the people and never had their cordial approval as in tion says a writer in ili the london news the most popular songs and ballads of our nation in all ages it may be noted have been those which described sympathetically attacks on private property from the robin hood cycle to the broadsheets in which turpin and sheppard were made heroes even nowadays the literature that really touches the people the litera ture that the educated classes seldom so much as see exposed tor for sale the literature that is sold in the small general shop in the back street and costs fewer pennies than the we know costs shillings still very largely deals with the romantic exploits of the robber he is never a villain he Is noble and generous to a fault but he is convinced of the impropriety of persons having too much money